Background: Contemporary software development organizations lack diversity and the ratios women in Free and open-source software (FOSS) communities are even lower than the industry average. Although the results of recent studies hint the existence of biases against women, it is unclear to what extent such biases influence the outcomes of software development tasks. Objective: This study aims to conceptually replicate two recent studies investigating gender biases in FOSS communities to identify whether the outcomes of or participation in code reviews (or pull requests) are influenced by the gender of a developer. In particular this study focuses on two outcome aspects (i.e., code acceptance, and review interval) and one participation aspect (i.e., code review participation) of code review processes. Method: We will augment the dataset used in the original studies with code reviews /pull requests created during the recent years. Using this dataset, we will train multivariate regression models to accurately model influences of developer's genders on code acceptance, review intervals, and code review participation.
翻译:目标:本研究旨在从概念上复制最近两项调查自由和开放源码软件社区性别偏见的研究,以确定代码审查(或拉动请求)的结果或参与情况是否受到开发者的性别影响,特别是本研究侧重于代码审查过程的两个结果方面(即代码接受和审查间隔)和一个参与方面(即代码审查参与)。方法:我们将利用近年来生成的代码审查/汇总请求,加强原始研究中使用的数据集。我们将利用这一数据集,培训多变量回归模型,以准确模拟开发者性别在代码接受、审查间隔和代码审查参与方面的影响。